Why The Department of Defense Domain Name Not Renewed?
Oct.13, 2009 in
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Hi Everyone !
Yesterday, i saw a interesting domain name in Godaddy expired domains auction.
The domain is “AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU.COM”, when i check the background of the domain i saw it belongs to the U.S Department of Defense.
When i saw the auction, the highest bid was $60, eventually the auction ends with a high bid of $11,005.
The PageRank is around 8, the traffic by Compete is around 500 visitors a month (no active website), Alexa rank is around 5 million with 100+ back-links…(a lot of back-links from U.S government sites).
“Its just me”, or if this domain is fulling to the wrong hands, its not good ???
Tell me what do you think ?
BTW – Archive.org showing last update on Feb, 2008, it was a U.S army support website.
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October 13th, 2009 at 4:00 am
I guess you can contact U.S. Department of Defense using their domain contact details and ask them directly.
Although I thought it would officially have .mil extension. May be that site was used for undercover operations? ;]
October 13th, 2009 at 4:46 am
This makes perfect sense – the current administration are a bunch of liberals, this is their way to let our brave men and women know that B. Hussein Obama doesn’t support their hard work and sacrifices.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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October 13th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Arbel,
While, I agree that the name can fall in the wrong hands and can be used in a malicious way. You have to ask yourself – why? With a high page rank and lots of back links you would think it should be attractive. Unfortunately the site only receives 500 /month traffic – it’s good but not great. This tells me a couple of things, users are not typing in the long tailed name and it’s sad to say, simply not clicking on this unpopular term.
We can only hope that in the future this domain will be used in a positive way and maybe the public sector can better do that.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Thank you everyone for the comments…
@Dan – The 500 visitors its only in Compete.com i think they only shows traffic from inside the U.S, also if you go back in time to the beginning of the year the traffic is increasing…
Because the domain was sitting around with no use, the traffic went down a lot.
Cheers,
Arbel
October 13th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Have found in the past that compete reports a bit inflated and not accurate or consistent. It’s not one I would hang my hat on.
An interesting note, the spike happened during the presidential transition.